ARTICLES ABOUT POLICE STATION BY DATE - PAGE 5

Richard C. Bizousky II said he committed no crime when he went to the Bushkill Township police station to serve a federal lawsuit, then ended up under arrest for assault because the officer didn't like the way he'd done it. On Wednesday, a Northampton County judge agreed, throwing out all the criminal charges against him. Bizousky's actions on Dec. 26 didn't rise to the level of simple assault, obstructing the administration of law, harassment or...

Richard C. Bizousky II went to the Bushkill Township police station to serve a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the town's noise ordinance. He left facing criminal charges, because the officer he gave the paperwork didn't like the way he'd done it, his defense attorney said. Officer Crystal Happel charged Bizousky with simple assault, obstructing the administration of law, harassment and disorderly conduct, saying she suffered a scratch — and possibly three — when he tossed the lawsuit into her patrol vehicle as she began to drive away.

Upper Macungie Supervisors gave the green-light Thursday night to start hiring officers for the township's new police force but there is no guarantee that officers who served the area as part of the soon-to-be-defunct Berks-Lehigh Regional Police force will be hired. Edgardo A Colon will officially become police chief on Aug. 20, three days after he retires as station commander at the state police Troop M Fogelsville barracks. He said he plans to take the next 90 days to interview applicants for about 22 positions.

A transformer caught fire outside the Lower Saucon Township police station Thursday night, according to police radio reports. Sparking wires were reported 11:20 p.m. behind the police station at 3700 Old Philadelphia Pike, between Fox Lane and Black River Road. The electrical problem was repaired quickly and safely. More than 10 hours earlier, a township fire station burned to the ground and one person died when a dump truck crashed into the Leithsville Volunteer Fire Company.

A Lehigh Township man assaulted his girlfriend Thursday morning on a Route 248 drive from Weissport to East Penn Township, police said. During the attack, police said, the 37-year-old girlfriend reached for her cellphone and dialed 911. When Palmerton police caught up with the vehicle at 8:30 a.m., John D. Holzer, 39, jumped out and leaped into the Lehigh River, state police at Lehighton said. Police on Friday still were looking for Holzer, who lives at 4468 Mountain View Drive, near Walnutport.

A 23-year-old man said he was high on PCP when he grabbed a shotgun from a parked Easton police cruiser and pointed it at two officers before being disarmed. Leslie Smith of Bangor pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats and resisting arrest, telling Northampton County Judge Edward Smith that he was hallucinating so badly that it took a week before his mind cleared. On Nov. 1, Leslie Smith was wandering in the parking lot of the downtown police station when he got into one of the cruisers and grabbed a shotgun inside it, pointing it at officers Joshua Marvin and Brett Bindics, who were trying to stop him, according to court records.

A Hamburg motorcyclist died Tuesday of injuries he suffered Sunday evening when he crashed to avoid a collision with a car that did not stop, police said. Terry Lee Schappell, 60, was eastbound on Dietrich Lane in Perry Township, Berks County, at 6:40 p.m. when his bike flipped as he steered out of the way of an oncoming blue car in his lane, state police at Hamburg said. Schappell was taken by Hamburg Ambulance to Reading Hospital, where he died two days later, police said.

A HIV-positive man is charged with assault allegedly spitting in an officer's face during his arrest early Saturday morning, according to court records. Nathaniel Watson, 19, is charged with aggravated assault, assault by prisoner, disorderly conduct, institutional vandalism, public drunkenness and underage drinking. Watson, of 922 Northampton St., Easton, is in Northampton County Prison under $75,000 bail. According to police: Around 2:30 a.m., police were called to Eighth and Spring Garden streets for a report of an intoxicated man in the road.

The other day I saw two of the mounted Bethlehem police horses standing at the gas station across from Liberty High School, getting ready to cross the street; I said to myself, "I wonder if they filled up already?" This reminded me that we have a great police force. I recently went to the police Citizens Academy meeting at Town Hall and the class was presented by police Commissioner Jason Schiffer, who told us about the police force and took us on a guided tour of the police station.

A Lehighton couple thought they were giving a friend a ride into Allentown on Thursday night, but instead he robbed them, police said. Allentown police said Stacy, 45, and Dave Kroculick, 48, agreed to give the friend, who they only knew by his first name, a ride into the city since they were heading that way to do some shopping at the Lehigh Valley Mall. Once they got to Allentown, the friend they know as "Dave," asked them to drop him off at Fifth and Cedar streets, police Captain Daryl Hendricks said.